Activity 10 - Free Choice

Activity 10 - Free Choice

I started out choosing Edmodo. It looks a lot like Facebook, but it has an educational focus. You can share information with students and Parent, create assignments and polls, and it has a Gradebook built in. 2nd grade does not use the MV Gradebook as the upper elementary grade do, so I thought I might give this a try. I set it up, had my boys enter sign in as students and we tried it out. I thought the site was intuitive and user friendly. I played with posting class information, downloading assignments and sending them, sending homework reminders and setting up a homework calendar. The only thing I was unable to figure out is how to use the Gradebook once a student submitted a lesson.

On the student side, it was just like using email. The posts, assignments and announcement all come through in a email format with tags letting them know the purpose and links to what they need to do. I did not pursue this any further in that I thought that it was a bit much for the computer knowledge that a second grade has. Time would be better spent preparing the students in using the MV Gradebook for the upcoming year.

Since I was unable to use Edmodo, I set up Delicious. Delicious.com is a social bookmarking site that allows you to collect, sort and share your favorite links and access them from any computer. I am really glad that I tried this site. It was quick and easy to set up. I set it up a way to save and organize links that I like. To share these links, you need to attach your links to a Facebook account.   My Facebook is linked to my other job, so I chose not to attach it to Facebook. I chose to book mark and catalog all of the sites that we have used in this class. Yea, now I will have one place to go to use the tools we have been working with.